a story about a pitbull and his owner. he walked him past my house on a log chain. if you don't know what a log chain is, it's strong enough to be snapped around a bundle of logs and the logs are dragged by a machine to the truck to be loaded. that's what a log chain is. the weight of one is unbelievable.

i was working in the front of my house one day and i heard a child scream. i ran to the front, with a hoe, and here is what i saw. i saw the pitbull, with his head through the fence and my neighbor's female dog's throat in his mouth.......and the owner was holding on to the chain and a plate with two pieces of cake on it.

i told him to get the dog off of "Chura" and he said he didn't want to drop the cake. i started beating the pitbull on the head with a large rock and then it came to me! it's the owner! so, i proceeded to beat the hell out of the man with the rock. he dropped his cake and got the dog off and i called the cops.

everyone in the village was aware of the abuse of that dog and the torture that his owner put him through on a daily basis. we had neglected to do anything because we'd never seen the dog "out of control" publicly. we knew what went on at the owner's house.

the cops came and told the man that if the dog ever stepped out of the yard again, anyone in the village could kill it.

the owner of the dog was angry at me over the cake and because his head was covered with blood from the rock. i chased him and the dog to his house. he said he was going to sue me. the cop (state trooper) and the animal control officer told him that he would find himself in handcuffs if he so much as looked at me again.

a week later the dog was killed when he attacked another dog. the man was training him, with blue heelers, to fight. my neighbor shot the dog.

the lesson that i got from that is that all of that was the owner's fault and his responsibility. Chura almost died and her owner went through unbelievable anguish over what happened.

the owner had the dog from a tiny puppy and he is the one that trained that dog to fight. that dog wasn't born wanting to fight.

i saw everything that happened next door,where i live now, and i'd take a pitbull into my home in a new york second. golden retrievers are notorious for biting, as are beagles. and rotties and dobermans.

the pitbull is the visible dog now. a young man strolls down the street, his manhood trotting along with him on a log chain, and being the visible dog, he's in the news a lot. but other dogs bite and kill.

i could train fayedy to kill. she's smart and she loves me. all it would take is some training and she'd do what i wanted her to do. she's airedale and boxer. i could train teddy jack to kill. he's shepherd and heeler. but my dogs have known nothing but love since day one and they know their role in my life and in theirs. they guard my house and guard me.

i am sick of hearing that pitbulls are the meanest dogs on earth. any dog can be mean if it is chained and abused as much as pitbulls are. there must be hundreds of pits chained in this town and i'm working with the city council to stop that. if you have a dog, then you have a yard. no chains. no way, no how. if you can't fence your yard, you don't need a dog. period.

end of rant.